--- title: Believe me, I entertain for you the kindest wishes in my heart; but… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Believe me, I entertain for you the kindest wishes in my heart; but to feel for you what I now know can be felt for another man, can never be. Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, with its dependency tree and the pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/122/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Old Bachelor's Nightcap](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/) / 122 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 122 Believe me, I entertain for you the kindest wishes in my heart; but to feel for you what I now know can be felt for another man, can never be. **Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** believe, entertain, feel, know, not be · **To what, where:** me, kindest wishes, heart This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:128:122 # text = Believe me, I entertain for you the kindest wishes in my heart; but to feel for you what I now know can be felt for another man, can never be. 1 Believe believe VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 entertain entertain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 kindest kind ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 amod _ _ 10 wishes wish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 feel feel VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 23 obj _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 23 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 felt feel VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 ccomp _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 29 det _ _ 29 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 be be VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **believe** | imperative | you *not said here* | | me | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 2 | **entertain** | present | I | the kindest wishes | | my heart | | for you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wish=Experiencer | | 3 | **feel** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | for you | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **know** | present | I | | | | now | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 5 | **feel** | can · passive | you *not said here* | | | | | for another man | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: for man=Theme | | 6 | **not** **can** | can | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/121/) - next →: [sentence 123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/123/) - ↑ back to [The Old Bachelor's Nightcap](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/)